Last week Tom Treanor and I rode the Old Coast Road at midnight during the full moon. Not a run per se, but a great outdoor adventure and with the hills involved there indeed was some foot time. Just could not ride the whole way. The second long sustained climb got to us.
What a great and exilarating experience. As we started it was overcast and not nearly as breathtaking as last year, but we got going and rode down into the Bixby Creek Canyon and all the way up. Worked up quite a lather on the ride up, so much so, that I got cold on the long decent. Riding along we notice that we had not needed our headlights. Finally as we crest the first hill the moon starts to break through.
We climb the second hill in the moonlight and both take advantage of the chance to walk the bikes up. Too much work to crank those things up that second hill. As we get to the top I notice there is little wind over the ridge. A nice time and we get to see the stars at the crest.
The ride down starts gently down, and through several redwood groves and switchbacks. We had to take a couple almost on faith as we plunge into darkness of the trees and then pop back out into the moonlight.
We start to get some speed going down and just before we finish a giant yellow shooting stars streaks across the sky!@
"Dude...did you see that...?!?," we exclaim...and finish the ride to a wonderful Blue Moon beer.
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